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DEBATES OVER TURKISH LEADERS' ETHNIC ORIGIN IN TURKEY
news.am
Sept 6 2010
Armenia
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahceli has
increased his personal attacks on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
targeting his son, Bilal, in an ongoing row over ethnicity, Today's
Zaman reports.
At a party rally in Konya on Saturday Bahceli claimed that Erdogan was
originally a Georgian while his wife, Emine, was an Arab. "So, what
shall we call Bilal? His mother is an Arab; his father is a Georgian.
So what is he personally?" the MHP leader asked.
According to him, Erdogan gives examples from his own life. He
says his wife is an Arab and that he personally is a Georgian who
comes from Batumi. And then he stirs provocation among 35 different
ethnicities. "Don't do this, esteemed prime minister, this is not
right. This nation is living in fraternity," he noted.
Turkey has for some time been witnessing dirty campaigns between
politicians over ethnicity. Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek recently claimed
that the mother of Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal
Kilicdaroglu was an Armenian in an attempt to demean him. Similarly,
CHP Izmir deputy Canan Aritman said the mother of President Abdullah
Gul is Armenian.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
Sept 6 2010
Armenia
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahceli has
increased his personal attacks on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
targeting his son, Bilal, in an ongoing row over ethnicity, Today's
Zaman reports.
At a party rally in Konya on Saturday Bahceli claimed that Erdogan was
originally a Georgian while his wife, Emine, was an Arab. "So, what
shall we call Bilal? His mother is an Arab; his father is a Georgian.
So what is he personally?" the MHP leader asked.
According to him, Erdogan gives examples from his own life. He
says his wife is an Arab and that he personally is a Georgian who
comes from Batumi. And then he stirs provocation among 35 different
ethnicities. "Don't do this, esteemed prime minister, this is not
right. This nation is living in fraternity," he noted.
Turkey has for some time been witnessing dirty campaigns between
politicians over ethnicity. Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek recently claimed
that the mother of Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal
Kilicdaroglu was an Armenian in an attempt to demean him. Similarly,
CHP Izmir deputy Canan Aritman said the mother of President Abdullah
Gul is Armenian.
From: A. Papazian